Re: [PATCH] Minor scheduler fix to get rid of skipping in xmms

[Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>]

Con Kolivas wrote:

>On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:16, Con Kolivas wrote:
>
>>On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:10, Con Kolivas wrote:
>>
>>>On Tue, 9 Sep 2003 08:56, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>>
>>>>Steven Pratt <slpratt@austin.ibm.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>For specjbb things are looking good from a throughput point of view.
>>>>>...
>>>>>Volanomark, on the other hand is still off by quite a bit from test4
>>>>>stock
>>>>>
>>>>hmm, thanks.
>>>>
>>>>I'm not sure that volanomark is very representative of any real-world
>>>>thing.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>...
>>>>>If thre is any particular patch/tree combination you would like me to
>>>>>try out, please let me know and I will see if I can get the results
>>>>>for you.
>>>>>
>>>>Could we please see test5 versus test5 plus Andrew's patch?
>>>>
>>>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-tes
>>>>t4 /2 .6.0-test4-mm6/broken-out/sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch
>>>>
>>>>and if you have time, also test5 plus sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch
>>>>plus
>>>>
>>>>ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.0-tes
>>>>t4 /2
>>>>.6.0-test4-mm6/broken-out/sched-balance-fix-2.6.0-test3-mm3-A0.patch
>>>>
>>>Interestingly enough this drops the volano results the same proportion as
>>>Ingo's A3 patch. 11000 ->10400 throughput with same idle, but more
>>>schedule().
>>>
>>>I've posted some results for test5 volano and test5-A0 here:
>>>http://kernel.kolivas.org/2.5/volano
>>>
>>>More testing underway.
>>>
>>Correction sorry: These changes were due to
>>sched-CAN_MIGRATE_TASK-fix.patch and the test results say
>>volano-results-2.6.0-test5-A0-*
>>
>
>Further testing shows the patch: sched-balance-fix-2.6.0-test3-mm3-A0.patch to 
>have no effect on volano results by itself. 
>

Hi Con,
Any chance you could give this
http://www.kerneltrap.org/~npiggin/v14/sched-rollup-nopolicy-v14.gz
a try? It should apply against test5.